Posted by jstutz1 | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on February 25, 2018
2/19 – 2/23
Popcorn Words: who, not
Math: This week in Math we took our Unit 3 Math test. These tests will be coming home this week. We started our next unit in Math and got new Math books! The Kinders were so excited to bring home their Volume 1 Math books this week! We started the Unit by visiting a “grocery store” in our math books. The Kinders practiced buying fruit and vegetables while we told addition and subtraction sentences. They also sorted these fruits and vegetables. They loved playing an unknown partner game with a friend too! Discovering what the missing partner was in the number in the game!
Readers Workshop: During Readers Workshop this week we talked about using all of our super power reading strategies again. We also dipped our toes into retelling stories with transition words. First, Then, Next and Last are the most common transition words that we use when retelling. We even use these words as writers to help us tell a story. We also learned about two new reading strategies, Jabber the Reteller and Punky Pelican. Jabber the Reteller helps us to remember to retell the story we read. We re-read a favorite, Pete the Cat I Love My White Shoes, by Eric Litwin and then practiced retelling the story using our retelling words. Punky Pelican helps us to pay attention to punctuation and reminds us to use our voice as we read. We noticed making our voice go up and down depending on the punctuation we see. An exclamation mark tells us that someone is excited. While a question mark tells us someone is asking a question.
Writers Workshop: This week we took our first “On Demand” as writers. An “On Demand” is a test for our writers. They have to use all of the strategies they have learned during Writers Workshop to show how they can write all by themselves. First we practiced telling a story across their fingers, sketching the pictures, adding labels to their pictures, adding words (stretching them out all on their own), using capital letters and punctuation. I am SO PROUD of them! The Kinders did a GREAT job working hard during our Writers Workshop time to write their best story this week!!
Maps: This week we continued to talk all about maps. We looked at maps and talked about maps and made our own map book. Inside our map book we put our address, wrote our house numbers and street names. The Kinders loved looking at our globe of the United States and finding our state on it!
8th Grade Visitors: This week we had a visit from Mrs. Hoey-Heath’s 8th graders. They read some books with! We loved having these visitors join us!
Dr. Seuss’ Birthday: Friday will be Dr. Seuss’ birthday! In honor of the late Dr. Seuss and his amazing books of rhyme and fun we will be having a fun dress Dr. Seuss-ish day on Friday, March 2!! The Kinders are encouraged to wear anything Dr. Seuss-ish (colors black, red and white) on Friday!!
Kindhearted Kinders: All month long we have talked about showing our kind hearts with our friends and people around us! The Kinders have been practicing using kind words, kind actions and random acts of kindness throughout our classroom. Each day I would add several names to our heart board when I caught them being kind! I am so proud of them!!
Winter Olympics: We have had so much fun talking all about the Winter Olympics! The Kinders have loved keeping track of a few countries and their medal earnings!! Each day we checked the medal earnings and tallied up how many Gold, Silver and Bronze medals were won by USA, Canada, Iceland and France. The Kinders loved this!! Sadly the games end this weekend. Way to go team USA!!!
Upcoming Dates:
- Monday, Feb. 26…ART, Bring Take Home Book.
- Tuesday, Feb. 27…STEAM, Bring Take Home Book.
- Wednesday, Feb. 28…GYM, LIBRARY. Homework due.
- Thursday, March 1…MUSIC.
- Friday, March 2…ART. Dr. Suess B-Day!!
- Friday, March 9…Early Release, Dismissal at 12:15 p.m.
- March 12 & 14…Spring Parent/Teacher Conferences. Conference Reminders will be send home this week with your specific date and time.
Sounds like another fantastic week of learning! It has been fun seeing Madison’s excitement for Olympics, because you have been talking about it at school too. We are looking forward to Dr. Suess’ Birthday as he’s one of our favorite authors. Love getting to celebrate him. I also love the “kind hearted Kinders” board. What a fun way to celebrate acts of kindness.